Category: Bullet Rants

JMJ✙

This is a list of all the near-rants that I could have written, but I didn’t.

The Novus Ordo in Latin shows the continuity of V2 with everything else and this is why people don’t like it.

Catholic Trad is beautiful. Tradnuts, however, are a Roman Parallel to what we used to call in Orthodoxy “Uber-Frum” and seem a side symptom of Convertitis.

Even cradles catch it from hanging out with converts

Catholic Convertitis is (like in Orthodoxy) a bad hangover from American Protestantism

American Opposition to Pope Francis is Crypto Sede

Catholic Twitter is filled with Cryptotrads who don’t self-identify for fear of being looped in with Tradnuts.

Saying the Pope should not speak on matters of environment, economics, politics, military, or sexual issues (as if they were not properly issues of Christian teaching and morality) is a species of Manicheanism.

The Pope can talk about environmental, economic, political, military, and sexual issues and that makes them de facto and de jure matters of faith and morals. He could, theoretically, speak ex cathedra on any of them in an infallible manner

I tweeted this hot take.

All Catholics would have to accept them

Most Americans wouldn’t, and it would damn us all to hell

The Amazon Synod is valid

It’s NOT an attack on Celibacy

Only anyone who spends too much time listening to talking heads rather than reading theology will disagree

Talking heads should be shot for Crypto Sede

Orthodox Patriarchs are not the same as the Pope, the Ecumenical Patriarch is not the Orthodox Pope, and Orthodox Patriarchs play politics better than Catholic Bishops.

Liturgy in a tongue no one speaks is not, doesn’t have to be, but often is used as an excuse for Gnosticism.

There will be more of this, but this is the end of my ranting for now.

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Seduxisti me Domine et seductus sum.

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men.
(Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)